Testimony of Allison Porter Before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations

Includes a sample strike notice simulation beginning on page 5.Testimony_Porter_022494.pdf: 263 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

An Elementary Art Curriculum for Private/Parochial Schools

This project is written with the hopes of offering assistance to the private/parochial schools that either have not committed themselves to an art program or that are floundering within stagnating commitments or those that need stimulus to think about the benefits of an art curriculum. The seed thoughts for this project were first planted when the author began teaching in a private school and observed first hand curriculum deficiences in local private/parochial schools. The author conducted a survey of similarly founded schools which led to suspicions that art curriculum of the private/parochial elementary schools in the State of Washington are inadequate

Geographic Location and Coping Strategies Among Primary Caregivers with Food Insecurity

First place in "Foods for Health: From the Bench to the Table" category in Denman Undergraduate Research ForumThe objective of this study is to explore differences in coping strategies among urban and rural primary caregivers with food insecurity. According to the USDA, food insecurity is a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. In 2014, there were 17.4 million American households classified as food insecure with the highest prevalence found in rural and urban settings. To mitigate the effects of food insecurity, primary caregivers use an array of coping strategies to feed their children, including foregoing basic needs like medication, rent, and utilities to purchase food. However, little is known about the use of these coping strategies by caregivers from urban and rural environments. Understanding these coping strategies used by caregivers could be useful in creating geography-specific strategies to address this debilitating issue. Primary caregivers, over the age of 18 with dependents under the age of 18, were recruited at two family practice clinics in Columbus, Ohio. Questionnaires were administered to assess presence and severity of food insecurity and food coping strategies. Place of residence, neighborhood characteristics and demographic information were also obtained. Recruitment is ongoing and will be completed by March 20, 2017. Initial responses indicate that there appears to be differences in coping strategies used in urban and rural environments. Urban primary caregivers appear to have a greater prevalence of food insecurity and appear more likely to forego utilities and rent whereas rural primary caregivers appear to forego medicine to obtain food. By understanding the coping strategies used by food insecure caregivers from rural and urban locations, public health professionals will be able to better understand the complex nature of food insecurity to plan more strategic interventions which can protect against poor nutrition and health outcomes and better serve the populations affected.A three-year embargo was granted for this item.Academic Major: Public Healt

SPACE-DEPLOYED, THIN-WALLED ENCLOSURE FOR A CRYOGENICALLY-COOLED HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING COIL

The interaction of magnetic fields generated by large superconducting coils has multiple applications in space, including actuation of spacecraft or spacecraft components, wireless power transfer, and shielding of spacecraft from radiation and high energy particles. These applications require coils with major diameters as large as 20 meters and a thermal management system to maintain the superconducting material of the coil below its critical temperature. Since a rigid thermal management system, such as a heat pipe, is unsuitable for compact stowage inside a 5 meter payload fairing, a thin-walled thermal enclosure is proposed. A 1.85 meter diameter test article consisting of a bladder layer for containing chilled nitrogen vapor, a restraint layer, and multilayer insulation was tested in a custom toroidal vacuum chamber. The material properties found during laboratory testing are used to predict the performance of the test article in low Earth orbit. Deployment motion of the same test article was measured using a motion capture system and the results are used to predict the deployment in space. A 20 meter major diameter and coil current of 6.7 MA is selected as a point design case. This design point represents a single coil in a high energy particle shielding system. Sizing of the thermal and structural components of the enclosure is completed. The thermal and deployment performance is predicted

Beyond Neutrality: Navigating challenges and leveraging opportunities of staff unionization in social change nonprofits

Union organizing campaigns at Starbucks and Amazon have been making headlines, but there is another, less publicized increase in unionization that has broad implications for social change: Employees of social justice nonprofit organizations have been unionizing in record numbers.While very few organizations in this sector were unionized ten years ago, it is now considered commonplace for groups like Planned Parenthood, Working Families Party, and Sunrise to have collective bargaining agreements with their staff.This crucial development has the potential to reshape the relationship between nonprofit workers, leaders, and organizations in a sector seeking new approaches to workplace democracy, organizational equity, and justice. It also has the potential to help seed a resurgent and more progressive labor movement in this country— historically a bedrock for social change movements.This is a moment of opportunity for organizational leaders to go beyond neutrality and partner with their staff to transform the work environment and fuel mission impact. However, pain points and dissonance have emerged from these efforts, revealing gaps in information, resources, support, and preparation for both employers and unions

Cerebrovascular Reactivity Change with Increased Intracranial Pressure

Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is an important regulatory factor of the brain. The parameter controls the dilation and constriction of blood vessels in the brain in response to certain stimuli, such as carbon dioxide. Abnormal CVR values could potentially be indicators of poorly functioning regulatory systems. Testing of CVR is one method of assessing the brain\u27s regulatory capabilities. The purpose of this study was to test for a relationship between CVR and intracranial pressure (ICP). In this study, increased intracranial pressure was created in 4 female subjects through head down tilt, using an inversion table. Subjects were lowered in the table and secured in 15 degree increments, from positive 45 degrees, to negative 30 degrees. At each level, a breath holding test was performed to measure CVR. In the breath holding test, the subject breathed normally for 30 seconds, held their breath for 30 seconds, and breathed normally for 30 seconds while blood flow velocity was recorded in the middle cerebral artery. The subject’s blood pressure was taken at each level of the table. The blood flow velocities from the middle cerebral artery were used to calculate the subject’s CVR value for each angle. The CVR values were observed to not change significantly at different angles of the inversion table. As mean arterial pressure was also observed to have remained unchanged through the various angles of the inversion table, it was confirmed that ICP was being increased

Flight Qualification of a Water Electrolysis Propulsion System

The successful operation of the HYDROS® propulsion system on NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstration (PTD)-1 mission is the first flight demonstration of a water electrolysis thruster. This hybrid electrical/chemical propulsion system was launched in January 2021 on PTD-1, and testing of the HYDROS propulsion system was carried out over the first half of 2021. HYDROS electrolyzes liquid water into gaseous hydrogen and oxygen, which are then combusted in a bipropellant rocket nozzle. The PTD-1 flight demonstration characterized the performance by performing a series of thrust events at varying operational parameters. The results show that this system delivers a relatively high thrust compared to electric propulsion and high specific impulse compared to a typical monopropellant thruster. The HYDROS propulsion system addresses a growing mission need for high maneuverability spacecraft. With the success of the on-orbit demonstration, HYDROS increases the practicality of using liquid water as the primary fuel and feasibility of refueling using resources commonly found in the solar system

Re(de)fining Narrative Events: Examining Television Narrative Structure

The authors introduce a new analytical instrument, the Scene Function Model, as an expansion of Seymour Chatman\u27s theoretical classification of story events into kernels and satellites. The Scene Function Model is designed to examine the narrative function of television scenes and provide the user with a clearer understanding of the structure of the television narrative